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Steve Ransom

Teachers Avoid Social Media Use for Classroom Learning, Survey Finds - Digital Educatio... - 0 views

  • in their personal lives
  • due to concerns about negative repercussions
  • only 18 percent said they had integrated social media into their own classrooms
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  • more than half of teachers said they had no plans to use social media with their students.
  • they're concerned about conflicts that can occur," Cook said. "The main thing they're concerned about is parents checking up on them, combining their personal life and their professional life."
  • Eighty percent of teachers surveyed worried about negative outcomes arising from the use of social networking
  • Nearly 70 percent said they believe that parents use social networking to monitor teachers' work or personal lives.
  • establishing a clear and consistent policy on social media use
  • there are barriers
  • Only 28 percent of teachers said they could access social networking sites via computers in their schools
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    Much work to be done and knowledgeable, experienced leadership needed. Eric Sheninger is a prime example of the positive outcomes when strong leadership leads the way. http://ericsheninger.com/esheninger
Steve Ransom

Students Battle School Districts Over First Amendment Rights On Social Media - 0 views

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    Seems more reactionary and controlling. Stronger vision, leadership, and willingness to model social media use and engage students in these spaces likely would help a gread deal here. Conversation leads to learning/understanding. Harsh discipline simply leads to compliance much of the time.
Steve Ransom

Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Consequences of Our Games - 0 views

  • "At a time when games are becoming ever more realistic, reality is becoming more gamelike."
  • The problem is not that games are inconsistent with many aspects of our lives; it is that they provide a limited and skewed lens on the world
  • It stresses the strategic interdependent interests of humans and assumes that in games there is always a rational choice which is the best counter-choice to your opponent's.
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  • Seeing more and more aspects of our lives as games to win through maximization has a sort of self-perpetuating effect with perverse consequences, not the least of which is the impairment of what Diesing terms social rationality; the cherishing of unique relationships, personal connectedness, cooperative functioning, solidarity and sentiment.
  • If winning efficiently is the goal, then the rules (ethical, moral, legal, and spiritual), are essentially obstacles to game.
  • In our schools, competition for access to elite preschools, for grades, for social status, in sports, over positions of leadership, and for admission to exclusive colleges transforms one of our most basic institutions for fostering community, ethics and learning into competitive, individualistic corporate training-grounds. In these settings, the importance of competitive sports becomes paramount, for both financial and training purposes, and the artistry of cheating (see this year's Stuyvesant High School cheating scandal) and rule-bending (see Joe Paterno) revered. Such intense competition encourages the professionalization of parenting -- through tutors, highly-educated nannies, prep courses, and professional training camps (such as investment camps). You can imagine the deleterious effects these trends have on the ethos of care and moral responsibility in our families and schools, a critical buffer against bullying and violence in the lives of our children.
  • We become hyper-connected through technologies, boasting our number of "friends" on Facebook, and have less and less intimacy.
  • We choose friends with benefits or Internet porn over romantic relationships as they are less messy, more efficient.
  • Life is a race and we are losing.
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    A great piece worth the time to reflect on. Mindfulness needs to be practiced frequently.
Steve Ransom

Why Leaders Should Brand Their Schools - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 0 views

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    Why Leaders Should Brand Their Schools
Steve Ransom

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: No Longer Optional: Tech that Makes Life A Little Less D... - 0 views

  • If you are in the position to make policies that impact educators, you better get into their classrooms, learn, and understand their world. —
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    How does your district approach technology adoption decisions? Are they largely imposed upon teachers?
Steve Ransom

'Design thinking' provides a real education for Kentucky school district | Education | ... - 0 views

  • they've stopped worrying about test scores, and test scores are rising.
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    It's possible. Do we have the courage?
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